Basic Tab

Connecting to the Server

Set the Server and Database connection properties to connect to Cassandra.

To connect to a distributed system, you can set Server to a comma-separated list of servers and ports, separated by colons. You will also need to set ConsistencyLevel.

The following sections detail connection properties for authentication, security, and data access. See Advanced Settings if you need more control over connecting to your system.

Connecting to CosmosDB with the Cassandra API

To obtain the connection string needed to connect to a Cosmos DB account using the Cassandra API, log in to the Azure Portal, select Azure Cosmos DB, and select your account. In the Settings section, click Connection String and set the following values.

  • Server: Set this to the Host value, the FQDN of the server provisioned for your account. You can also specify the port here or in Port.
  • Port: Set this to the port.
  • Database: Set this to the database you want to read from and write to.
  • User: The Cosmos DB account name.
  • Password: The account key associated with the Cosmos DB account.
  • UseSSL: Set to True

Securing Cassandra Connections

You can set UseSSL to negotiate SSL/TLS encryption when you connect. By default, the adapter attempts to negotiate SSL/TLS by checking the server's certificate against the system's trusted certificate store. To specify another certificate, see the SSLServerCert property for the available formats to do so.

Authenticating to Cassandra

The adapter supports Basic authentication with login credentials and the additional authentication features of DataStax Enterprise (DSE) Cassandra. The following sections detail connection properties your authentication method may require.

You need to set AuthScheme to the value corresponding to the authenticator configured for your system. You specify the authenticator in the authenticator property in the cassandra.yaml file. This file is typically found in /etc/dse/cassandra. or through the DSE Unified Authenticator on DSE Cassandra.

Basic Authentication

Basic authentication is supported through Cassandra's built-in default PasswordAuthenticator.

  • Set the AuthScheme property to 'BASIC' and set the User and Password properties.
  • In the cassandra.yaml file, set the authenticator property to 'PasswordAuthenticator'.

Kerberos Authentication

Kerberos authentication is supported through DataStax Enterprise Unified Authentication.

  • Set the AuthScheme property to 'KERBEROS' and set the User and Password properties.
  • Set the KerberosKDC, KerberosRealm, and KerberosSPN properties.
  • In the cassandra.yaml file, set the authenticator property to "com.datastax.bdp.cassandra.auth.DseAuthenticator".
  • Modify the authentication_options section in the dse.yaml file, specifying the default_schema and other_schemas properties as 'kerberos'.
  • Modify the kerberos_options section in the dse.yaml file, specifying the keytab, service_principle, http_principle and qop properties

LDAP Authentication

LDAP authentication is supported through DataStax Enterprise Unified Authentication.

  • Set the AuthScheme property to 'LDAP' and set the User and Password properties.
  • In the cassandra.yaml file, set the authenticator property to "com.datastax.bdp.cassandra.auth.DseAuthenticator".
  • Modify the authentication_options section in the dse.yaml file, specifying the default_schema and other_schemas properties as 'ldap'.
  • Modify the ldap_options section in the dse.yaml file, specifying the server_host, server_port, search_dn, search_password, user_search_base, and user_search_filter properties

Using PKI

You can specify a client certificate to authenticate the adapter with SSLClientCert, SSLClientCertType, SSLClientCertSubject, and SSLClientCertPassword.